covid response Articles
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EHS Leads Companies` COVID-19 Response
The EHS function is at the center of their company’s response to COVID-19, and EHS leaders are uniquely prepared to take on the management challenges created by this pandemic. Rick Taylor, Vice President of EHS & Sustainability for Parker Hannifin, said it best while keynoting last week’s virtual EHS OpEx conference: “An EHS leader knows how to implement…They can ...
By NAEM
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Protective Packaging offers long-term preservation solutions for idled helicopters
As helicopter operators and airlines around the globe are grounding flights in response to Covid-19, the oil-and-gas market, and other pressures, they are scrambling for cost-effective ways for aircraft and equipment preservation. In the absence of adequate hangar space, many companies have been forced to simply park aircraft on idle ramps or runways at airports and let Mother Nature take her ...
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Hitting the accelerate button: The impact of Covid-19 on digital transformation within defense
The global defense industry, like many sectors across the world, is experiencing unpredictable results in response to Covid-19. Military organizations are shedding their rigid structures and investing in new technology to allow them to continue with their domestic and foreign operations in response to the evolving crisis. In fact, recent IFS research has demonstrated that the defense industry is ...
By IFS
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Holding a successful virtual meeting
Virtual meetings have been becoming more and more popular for a while now, but have seen a rapid increase in popularity in response to COVID 19. Out of this necessity, it has become clear how productive and effective virtual meetings can be. Virtual meetings allow us to connect and develop effective mentoring relationships in a way that we may not have been able to previously. They ...
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N95 Mask Material Inventor and AFS Fellow Peter Tsai Exits Retirement to Join Covid-19 Response
Long-time AFS member and supporter Peter Tsai has recently received international attention for coming out of retirement to join the battle against Covid-19. As the inventor of the synthetic fabric used to make the N95 mask that is critical in protecting front-line healthcare workers and stemming the spread of coronavirus, Peter started receiving a barrage of requests in mid-March for his ...
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Will the pandemic accelerate the shift to the cloud?
The present Covid-19 pandemic has radically altered the way of doing business in the world. Brick and mortar establishments have imposed social distancing in their shops to stop the spread of the virus. As a result, fewer people are going out and more of them are doing their business online.Cloud computing can produce modern business advantages, allowing multiple users to view data in real-time ...
By AKCP
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Predicting the impact of keeping a distance at security divestment
As travel restrictions are slowly eased and airlines start to offer more regular connections, airports are looking for ways how to implement improved hygiene standards and social distancing guidance throughout the passenger journey without compromising security, efficiency or profitability. Achieving this is likely to be a key factor in gaining a competitive advantage in the recovery phase. ...
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Airborne SARS CoV-2 detection allows for adaptive mitigation of virus - Case Stduy
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County uses Smiths Detection’s Bioflash Biological Identifier to help confirm presence of virus in the air allowing for real time response to covid-19. Stop the Spread of Covid-19 At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Smiths Detection’s team based at its Biotechnology Center of Excellence in Baltimore, MD, began developing a new capability to ...
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10 Minutes With...Dr. Peter Biedenkopf
Interview with INMATEC´s general manager about his new tasks, the takeover by XEBEC, oxygen supply during the corona pandemic, the market for medical gases and much more. Thanks for taking 10 minutes out with gasworld. What have we interrupted in your schedule today? At the moment we are performing the technical acceptance of our newly designed PSA systems. In the future, all of our ...
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Thoughts on OSHAs COVID-19 Vaccination, Testing and Face Covering ETS
The views and information shared in this blog are our best interpretation of empirical, non-politicized, data. Our Co-Founder, Susen Trail, holder of a Master's Degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Michigan, has been studying and researching COVID-19, and the response to COVID-19, from its inception (Feb. 2020). As a former OSHA standards enforcement officer, she is also holds ...
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Providing critical oxygen delivery system to Dragon’s Heart Hospital - Case Study
Project: Dragon’s Heart Hospital Principality Stadium Client: N G Bailey / Cardiff & Vale University Health Board Timing: April 2020 Value: £1.6M Without oxygen the Dragon’s Heart Hospital, conceived as a response to the coronavirus pandemic, could not function. Demonstrating outstanding commitment, the Medical Gases’ team designed, delivered and installed ...
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Climate Communication in the Time of COVID-19
Communicating about climate change has never been easy. The subject is complex, marred by uncertainties and tends to evoke emotionally and politically charged responses. How then do we talk about climate change as the global community grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic today? How do we do this in a post-pandemic world? In the last few years, climate change moved to the centre stage of global ...
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Why TEGAM Advises Against Infrared and For Contact Thermometers for COVID-19 Testing
“I would like to order a million infrared temperature sensors” is the kind of request that a temperature measurement company likes to hear. In the response to COVID-19, many people are looking for solutions to monitoring people’s temperature and we have fielded several of these inquiries. TEGAM specializes in contact temperature measurement as opposed to infrared temperature ...
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Latest data on the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in children
Childhood vaccinations provide immunity to children against serious infectious diseases before they are exposed to them to prevent illness. Many childhood diseases, such as smallpox and polio, have been almost completely eradicated as a result of widespread, standardized childhood vaccination programs. Some vaccinations, such as those for highly contagious diseases including measles, mumps, ...
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How COVID-19 is Affecting Water Operations Worldwide
The swift spread of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) across the globe has resulted in unexpected and at times, under planned for, impacts. In some countries, the outbreak has moved businesses to halt on-site operations and urged employees to work from home. The water industry, however, is quickly adapting to the new reality and leveraging remote capabilities to continue supplying clean and safe ...
By SWAN Forum
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Editorial: Research, Development and Clinical Trials for Peptide-Based Vaccines
From the eradication of smallpox through to the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines have been a cornerstone in the fight against infectious diseases in humans and livestock since the 18th century. Although vaccines against COVID-19 are unlikely to eradicate the disease in the way that the smallpox vaccine did, they have proved very effective in preventing death and hospitalisation, ...
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COVID-19 Continuous Monitoring Device
In an effort to assist with the ongoing pandemic, KoKo has partnered with Belun Technologies to provide a continuous monitoring device that ensures safety and security for patients and healthcare workers. Belun 100C delivers a continuous stream of patients’ vital signs to one central workstation improving response times and reducing COVID-19 exposure while increasing patient-provider ...
By KoKo PFT
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Biorep Innovation Partner to COVID-19 Stem Cell Therapy Trial
After a lightning round of proposals and reviews, an international team of scientists led by Dr. Camillo Ricordi was granted immediate FDA authorization for a 24-patient clinical trial to test the safety and exploratory efficacy of umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells (UC-MSCs) to block the life-threatening lung inflammation that accompanies severe cases of COVID-19. The therapy uses ...
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Racing Ahead – Pushing forward with Automated Bioproduction Units.
Come and see an automated biologics processing unit in operation at a one-day Symposium “Integrated Process Strategies For Regional Biopharmaceutical Supply” on March 28, 2023, Sedgefield, UK. Looking back down the race circuit, the horses don’t seem to be moving quickly – until they come thundering past you, covering twice my height in one effortless stride. We can ...
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Influenza Vaccination: Our Best Tool for Safeguarding Communities from Influenza
Why we can’t overlook influenza in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In many parts of the world, public health authorities are lifting social distancing, mask wearing and other COVID-19 mitigation measures in response to subsiding or stabilizing infection rates. But as daily life slowly returns to normal – and in the absence of an effective call to action on getting ...
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